Customers
Note: if you have already purchased QCAD Professional or QCAD/CAM, you can access your purchased software and e-books as well as updates directly through the download link that was sent to you via e-mail directly after your purchase. The e-mail subject is "Order / Commande / Bestellung" + your order number. More information...
QCAD Professional Trial
These packages contain QCAD, bundled with a free trial of QCAD Professional. The trial runs 15min at a time and can then be restarted. You can order QCAD Professional from our Online Shop and download the full version immediately. Alternatively, you can choose to remove the trial and use the reduced free QCAD Community Edition instead.
Windows
 QCAD Trial for Windows 32bitInstaller Version 3.29.6 |
QCAD Trial for Windows 64bit Installer Version 3.29.6 |
macOS
| QCAD Trial for macOS Intel 64bit macOS 10.14-14.x Disk Image Version 3.29.6 |
QCAD Trial for macOS M1/M2/M3 (arm 64bit, NOT for Intel CPUs) macOS 12.7-14.x Disk Image Version 3.29.6 |
Linux
| QCAD Trial for Linux 32bit Installer Version 3.29.6 |
QCAD Trial for Linux 64bit Installer Version 3.29.6 |
QCAD/CAM Trial
These packages contain a free trial version of QCAD/CAM. You can order QCAD/CAM from our Online Shop and download the full version immediately.
Windows
| QCAD/CAM Trial for Windows 32bit Installer Version 3.29.6 |
QCAD/CAM Trial for Windows 64bit Installer Version 3.29.6 |
macOS
| QCAD/CAM Trial for macOS Intel 64bit macOS 10.14-14.x Disk Image Version 3.29.6 |
QCAD/CAM Trial for macOS M1/M2/M3 (arm 64bit, NOT for Intel CPUs) macOS 12.7-14.x Disk Image Version 3.29.6 |
Linux
| QCAD/CAM Trial for Linux 32bit Installer Version 3.29.6 |
QCAD/CAM Trial for Linux 64bit Installer Version 3.29.6 |
All Downloads
QCAD with QCAD Professional Trial
Windows Legacy (XP) 32bit Installer
Windows Legacy (XP) 32bit ZIP Archive
macOS (Mac OS X) 10.7-10.8 64bit Disk Image
macOS (Mac OS X) 10.9 64bit Disk Image
macOS 10.10-10.13 64bit Disk Image
macOS 10.14-14.x Intel 64bit (and M1/M2/M3 with Rosetta 2) Disk Image
macOS 12.7-14.x M1/M2/M3 (arm 64bit) Disk Image
Linux 64bit Qt 5.14 (Wayland support) Installer
Linux 64bit Qt 5.14 (Wayland support) tar.gz
QCAD/CAM Trial
Windows Legacy (XP) 32bit Installer
Windows Legacy (XP) 32bit ZIP Archive
macOS (Mac OS X) 10.7-10.8 64bit Disk Image
macOS (Mac OS X) 10.9 64bit Disk Image
macOS 10.10-10.13 64bit Disk Image
macOS 10.14-14.x Intel 64bit (and M1/M2/M3 with Rosetta 2) Disk Image
macOS 12.7-14.x M1/M2/M3 (arm 64bit) Disk Image
Linux 64bit Qt 5.14 (Wayland support) Installer
Linux 64bit Qt 5.14 (Wayland support) tar.gz
QCAD Community Edition
If you are looking for the free open source QCAD Community Edition, you can download the trial version for your platform (see above) and then remove the QCAD Professional add-on running in trial mode (click Remove in the Trial widget and follow on screen instructions).
Alternatively, you may compile your own package from sources below.
QCAD Community Edition Source Code
The source code of QCAD version 3.29.6 is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).
Please note that the GPLv3 applies to the source code of QCAD 3.29.6 only, not to source code of 3rd party libraries or other resources contained in the package (user manual, fonts, patterns, etc.). For a complete list of licenses, please refer to the file LICENSE.txt contained in the package.
For help and support, please browse our user forum or post your questions there.
- QCAD Source: v3.29.6.0.zip
- License: GPLv3
- Version: 3.29.6
- git: https://github.com/qcad/qcad
- Requirements: Qt developer edition (4.7, 4.8, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.10, 5.11), C++ compiler.
This is source code intended for computer savvy developers. Source code needs to be compiled using a C++ compiler.
This is NOT an installer. Installers are available at the top of this page.
Qt Source Code
QCAD uses Qt 5, a cross-platform C++ framework. You can download the source code of Qt 5.10.1 for all platforms from the link below, or obtain it from the Qt Company.
The LGPL Open Source license under which Qt ships with QCAD, confers various rights to you as the user, including the right to recompile the Qt libraries for your platform. To do that follow the documentation shown on the Qt website.
- Qt Source: qt-everywhere-src-5.10.1.zip
- License: LGPL
Note: To compile the QCAD Community Edition against Qt 6.x you also need qtjsapi and qcadjsapi.